Draft:Bob George (song)
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| "Bob George" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Prince | |
| from the album The Black Album | |
| Genre | Funk |
| Length | 5:36 |
| Songwriter(s) | Prince |
"Bob George" is a song by American musician Prince from his 1994 album The Black Album. The song is about a man finding out his partner was with a man called Bob George, and then proceeds to kill her. The character of Bob George is supposed to be a representation of Prince's former manager Bob Cavallo.[1]
Composition
[edit]Instrumentation
[edit]The song's groove is based around the twelve-bar blues. The instrumentation of the song is very minimalistic, consisting of just a drum beat and bass playing the tonic of the chords. The song introduces electric guitar just before the protagonist kills his partner, and the rest of the song uses a lot of sound effects that most likely came from the Fairlight CMI, including gunshots, glass shattering, and police sirens.
Vocals
[edit]On the song, Prince used a Publison Infernal Machine to pitch shift his vocals down until it was discernible as his.[2] Compared to most of his other songs, "Bob George" does not follow a typical song structure for the lyrics, but rather a threatening ramble the protagonist to saying to his partner and Bob George on the phone.
Personnel
[edit]Adapted from Benoît Clerc and Duane Tudahl[2][1]
Musicians
[edit]- Prince – spoken voice, electric guitar, kick drum, snare drum, Linn LM-1, Fairlight CMI, Ensoniq Mirage, Prophet VS, Yamaha DX7
Technical
[edit]- Prince – producer
- Susan Rogers – recording engineer
Legacy
[edit]Although The Black Album was scrapped by Prince to be swiftly replaced by Lovesexy, "Bob George" and "Superfunkycalifragisexy" were performed on all 77 dates of the Lovesexy Tour.[3] "Bob George" was performed as the penultimate song of the first half of the show, before Prince "redeems" himself by performing the song "Anna Stesia".[4][5]
Before The Black Album's official release in 1994, Madonna sampled the line "That skinny motherfucker with the high voice" from "Bob George" on the Dub Beats remix of her song "Like a Prayer".[6]
In 1998, the band Dump released a cover album of Prince songs, calling the album "That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?" after the song's lyric. Although named after a song off The Black Album, no songs from the album were covered.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tudahl, Duane (November 2021). Prince and the Parade and Sign O the Times Era Studio Session: 1985 and 1986. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 534, 580, 583. ISBN 9781538144510.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b Clerc, Benoît (2022). Prince: All the Songs. Octopus Publishing. p. 267. ISBN 9781784728816.
- ^ "Prince Tour Statistics: Lovesexy Tour | setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
- ^ Caruso, Vincent (2017-10-13). "Prince Gets Weird on the Terrifying 'Bob George'". Ultimate Prince. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
- ^ "Change of Heart". wax-poetics. 2023-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
- ^ "Madonna's 'Like a Prayer (Dub Beats)' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
- ^ Dump - That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?, 1998, retrieved 2025-04-07